Wow. Was considering coming to this but there is no way Id ever want to meet anyone so horrible!!
Staff members do not use this forum at all. I know that there are definitely keepers that have been there at least 20 years, however not that many.
Or not apparently haha
I follow a lot of zoos and some post shameless advertising which is rather mindnumbing. I think one or two posts a week with a photo of animals...
In the UK most large zoos have certain members of staff that are trained to be on 'gun-duty' and they take turns. Ive never met a keeper that...
Thanks guys, its nice to keep updated as I doubt UK news will really cover it.
You may laugh but it is ridiculous how much people allow their children to urinate and defecate in zoos. Literally next to toilet blocks and even...
I am sure Im not the only person on here wondering how zoos in Sandys path are coping? Does anyone have any news?
This would actually be the second animal Shaun has recieved named Fluffy ;)
Confirmed on facebook, baby Okapi born yesterday :)
Well you can't see them if the parents are sitting on them ;)
Oh fantastic thanks for posting this, I am half polish and loved the story of wojtek when i was growing up :)
Still not convinced, he claims to have had some people do an in depth study, but what does he really know about these kinds of things? There...
Just having read the thread on kissing in zoos, Id be interested to hear a discussion on people smoking in zoos. I'm an avid smoker and...
I believe some at Durrell are in breeding groups?
I only have it on paper but I can explain it here for you, it is for a module called 'Behaviour and Management of Zoo Animals' and the work is in...
How would an animal perceive that someone in a wheelchair is 'weak'? As they have no knowledge of wheelchairs or disability...
I go to Warsaw zoo almost every yearwhen I visit Poland and when I first went I was pretty shocked but over the past few years the new exhibits...
When volunteering at Durrell in the summer, I heard a few and got told of some others including: Gentle Lemur = Koala Ibis' = Vultures And...
Theres a bit about when Longleat kept Brown Bears and macaques and then brown bears and wolves together in a book called 'wild mammals in...
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